South Africa: Grain and Feed Annual
Post estimates South Africa will have to import about one million tons of corn in the 2018/19 MY on an estimated 20 percent decline in commercial production due to drought conditions. However, South Africa should return as a net exporter of corn in the 2019/20 MY, mainly due to its established markets in neighboring countries. Post forecasts that South Africa’s wheat imports for the 2019/20 MY will be around 1.9 million tons. Wheat imports are expected to decrease in the 2018/19 MY to 1.7 million tons, due to a 20 percent increase in production from the previous season's drought-reduced crop. In the 2019/20 MY, South Africa’s rice imports are expected to increase by 2 percent to 1.1 million tons on marginal increases in demand.
